Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

Kenneth Branagh: Viktor Cherevin

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• Viktor Cherevin : You Americans like to think of yourselves as direct, but I wonder if perhaps you are just rude.

  Jack Ryan : You Russians think of yourselves as poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

• Viktor Cherevin : [In Russian]  It was always for Russia.

  The Minister Sorokin : So is this.

  [He shoots Viktor] 

• Viktor Cherevin : Aging isn't the problem. Dying the proper way, that is the problem.

  Cathy Muller : Not if you've lived a life without regret.

  Viktor Cherevin : How on earth does one do that? Regret. It piles up around us like books we never read.

  Cathy Muller : Well, that's the past. Can you live the rest of your life without regret?

  Viktor Cherevin : Yes, perhaps. If I feel I have done something truly great for my country. Something my children would have found important.

• Viktor Cherevin : [speaking of Afghanistan]  Different time, different empire, same graveyard.

• Viktor Cherevin : Partnerships are delicate, Mr. Ryan. Sometimes they end violently.

• Cathy Muller : If we're going to be married, I'd like to know that I can trust him.

  Viktor Cherevin : Trust. Truth. I think it's like most opinions, best unexpressed.

• Viktor Cherevin : The attack is coming, Jack. You can't stop it.

• Viktor Cherevin : You flew all the way to Moscow to surprise him or to catch him, which was it?

  Cathy Muller : That's a rather personal question.

  Viktor Cherevin : Would you prefer impersonal? I'd rather talk than make chit-chat, wouldn't you?

• Viktor Cherevin : I'm sorry you had to come all this way for nothing, Mr. Ryan.

  Jack Ryan : I hear the finest restaurant in Moscow is across the street. In honor of our partnership and to, quite frankly, apologize for my mistake, perhaps I could take you to dinner.

  Viktor Cherevin : No. But I'll take you. And I insist my driver pick you up from your hotel. Moscow can be very dangerous.

• Viktor Cherevin : Nothing here is concealed. Only secured.

• Viktor Cherevin : And the jet lag? That first night can be brutal.

  Jack Ryan : I survived.

• Cathy Muller : I love Lermontov. That Russian romanticism is so achingly desperate.

  Viktor Cherevin : Desperate, yes. And insatiable.

• Cathy Muller : Jack has a back injury. From Afghanistan.

  Viktor Cherevin : Me, too. Different time, different empire, same graveyard.